Founder of tattoo parlor and school, Tattoo Temple on Stanley Street, Pang hopes to bring legitimacy to the art of tattooing in Hong Kong by standardizing the practice. Pang took us to the Causeway Bay marina island barrier, which demarcates the typhoon shelter in Victoria Harbour. Traditionally home to a thriving community of boat people living on sampans and junks, the shelter is now dominated by luxury yachts. Read more about the last of the boat dwellers at Causeway Bay typhoon shelter.

How to get there:
Enter the underground walkway between the World Trade Center and the Excelsior Hotel to reach the Causeway Bay waterfront. Hire a sampan there to reach the marina island barrier.

Simon Go, co-founder, Hulu Culture

Simon Go is the co-founder of Hulu Culture, an arts organization that showcases grassroots Hong Kong culture. He is also a photojournalist and published "Hong Kong Old Shops" a book of photos and stories of Hong Kong's family-owned businesses.

Go took us on a walk along Shanghai Street where the Hong Kong of the 1950s can still be seen.How to get there:

Chochukmo, 'it' band

Chochukmo became Hong Kong's bonafide indie it band when they won Time Out's We'll Make Your Album competition last year. They took us to their not-so-secret rehearsal space in Tsuen Wan for a private session.

Gregory Rivers, actor

Gregory Rivers is better known to most Hong Kongers by his Chinese name, Ho Kwok-wing, and perhaps better still as "that gwailo on TVB." For 21 years, Rivers was one of the few non-Chinese faces on Cantonese-language TV, where he acted in more than 200 dramas and comedies.

Hugo Leung, food lover

One look at Hugo Leung and you know he is a true food lover. It's not just his gloriously rotund body shape, but the guy really lights up like a bulb when faced with a steaming hot plate of something delicious. The managing director of famed Tai Wing Wah Restaurant in Yuen Long, his fans call him "To To" or "Brother To" and he is widely recognized as Hong Kong's gourmand-about-town.